Laudable Landscapes: Famous Places and the Japanese Tradition of Cultural Geography

• Books & Literature

The Japanese archipelago has long been full of geographical sites charged with particular significance in visual art, material culture, and literature. Known as famous places, or meisho, these fascinating micro-geographies continue to inspire complex appreciations of landscape owing to the thick layers of meaning they have accumulated over time. Professor Robert Goree, Instructor of Japanese Literature at Boston University, an authority on cultural geography in early modern Japan, leads us on a journey as he highlights works featuring famous places in Points of Departure.